We put out a casting notice for all 5 of our short scenes. Well I was putting one together for mine and told the guys I'm booking a room and putting out a notice anyway so if you want in send me your summary and character breakdown. They all did because they're not stupid, I was doing a bunch of work for them. And I don't really mind since it was no more work than just doing it for myself.
But now I've realized that yes it is. Because I put my email as the contact and since we don't have the room reservation confirmed yet - I put in the request but I'm still waiting to hear - told them to let me know if they were planning to come so I could tell them where once I know. And I still wasn't thinking that was going to be much. Well, the notice went out yesterday afternoon and so far we've got 22 people coming for a total of 10 roles.
I'm a little worried about our 3 hour block of time being good enough. We will need to be very organized on the day. And none of us have ever really done auditions before so we're all just faking it. I really hope that's going to be a topic of conversation in at least one of our classes this term.
The thing is I'm spending a lot of time emailing all these people today and some of them I know aren't right for my parts. But just because they aren't right for a part now who knows what my 8 minute film will be, or what I'll be doing in the fall. And in the meantime I'm developing a little bit of a relationship with the actors in town and that can't be bad even if I feel like I'm not getting anything else done today.
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